# Spark Mail: rehosting the Windows desktop app on Linux with Wine shims

> spark-mail-linux rehosts the Windows Spark Mail desktop app on Linux with Wine, two compatibility DLL shims and launcher scripts. The project documents application startup, browser authentication, notifications, clipboard and file-opening behavior, then patches specific DLL imports and bridges those functions to the Linux desktop.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: App
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-06
- Original resource: <https://github.com/kyryl-bogach/spark-mail-linux>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/kyryl-bogach/spark-mail-linux/blob/36e74b20b8a8b7f74ae2d386cbf563fddb018276/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/spark-mail-linux-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/spark-mail-linux-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/spark-mail-linux-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** An official Windows Spark.exe installer, Wine, and Arch Linux or an Arch-based system as documented.
- **Testing evidence:** The author reports that Spark 3.32.2.141404 starts; mail, calendar, attachment and notification delivery checks remain incomplete for that version.
- **License:** MIT licence.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/kyryl-bogach/spark-mail-linux/blob/36e74b20b8a8b7f74ae2d386cbf563fddb018276/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/kyryl-bogach/spark-mail-linux/blob/36e74b20b8a8b7f74ae2d386cbf563fddb018276/AGENTS.md>

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